Calendar

[General Dorsey]

So I'm trying to work out a calendar for Golarian but I am running into a few problems. I am using the Time and Space information from the Campaign Setting but it's missing two important details:

1) How many days in a month; since they aren't all equal in length, which ones have 31 and which ones have 30? There are 360 days if we assume that each month is 30 days. There are 364 if we use the 7 days per week, 52 weeks per year. A leap year only adds one day.
2) What day does the calendar start?

[James Jacobs]

General Dorsey wrote:

So I'm trying to work out a calendar for Golarian but I am running into a few problems. I am using the Time and Space information from the Campaign Setting but it's missing two important details:

1) How many days in a month; since they aren't all equal in length, which ones have 31 and which ones have 30? There are 360 days if we assume that each month is 30 days. There are 364 if we use the 7 days per week, 52 weeks per year. A leap year only adds one day.
2) What day does the calendar start?

The Golarion calendar is intended to work exactly like the real world calendar. The words in the Campaign Setting are a little bit unclear, unfortunately.

[General Dorsey]

Thanks. Now that I look more closely I can see that. I didn't even notice the Gregorian months listed.

[blueace]

Hi,

I would like to present you my online Golarion calendar (CSS3 browser requiered !).

But I'm not so sure about the 1st day of the year, so I would like to have your opinion.

On the one hand James Jacobs said on Fri, Apr 9, 2010, 11:50 AM : "Golarion's days don't quite sync up perfectly to our days"

On the other hand he said on Sat, Jul 3, 2010, 07:18 PM : "Golarion calendar is intended to work exactly like the real world calendar".

First, I understand that for Paizo it's not an important detail, but in fact the only problem is the leap day, every 4 years IRL and every 8 years on Golarion.

Maybe it would the easier to say, like an errata, that on Golarion the leap day is also every 4 years.

[Bob_Loblaw]

This is really cool. I bookmarked it for future reference. I will have to use it in my next campaign. I have no idea what the date is in my current game. My computer died a couple months ago and I lost everything.

[Vanulf Wulfson]

Here is a link to a calendar I created covering the years from 4707 up to 4715. It includes the festival and holidays from the ISWG as well as phases of the moon.
Golarion Calendar